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Offline Pandora

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"Shady Characters -- The Secret Life of Punctuation"
« on: July 15, 2012, 12:10:24 PM »
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Emoticons are, it turns out, rather older than I had thought. Last month the photo blog Retronaut posted images of an 1881 issue of Puck magazine depicting proto-smileys constructed from parentheses, stops and other typographic marks, just like their modern counterparts.


http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2012/07/miscellany-%E2%84%96-12/

H/T American Digest
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Re: "Shady Characters -- The Secret Life of Punctuation"
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2012, 04:09:43 PM »
Need horrific shock and unbridled anger to get much use in present day Amerika.
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